One story assigns Dexamenus, the son of Oeceus, as this character's father, and tells of how she was briefly forcibly betrothed to Eurytion; however, other versions of that story replace this character with Mnesimache. One of this woman's children volunteered to be sacrificed to Persephone in order to avert war between Eurystheus and Demophon. The fact that she was a daughter of Oeneus and Althaea made her the sister of Meleager. Her future husband defeated the bull-horned river god (*) Achelous in a contest for her han
One story assigns Dexamenus, the son of Oeceus, as this character's father, and tells of how she was briefly forcibly betrothed to Eurytion; however, other versions of that story replace this character with Mnesimache. One of this woman's children volunteered to be sacrificed to Persephone in order to avert war between Eurystheus and Demophon. The fact that she was a daughter of Oeneus and Althaea made her the sister of Meleager. Her future husband defeated the bull-horned river god (*) Achelous in a contest for her hand, and she later became jealous of that husband's interest in Iole, causing her to seek a way to ensure his faithfulness. She acquired a mixture of blood, oil, and semen that would supposedly do just that from her erstwhile captor, the centaur Nessus, but when she spread it on her husband's shirt, it ended up killing him. For 10 points, identify this woman whose name means "man-destroyer", likely a reference to her accidental killing of her husband Heracles.
One story assigns Dexamenus, the son of Oeceus, as this character's father, and tells of how she was briefly forcibly betrothed to Eurytion; however, other versions of that story replace this character with Mnesimache.
{Deianira} [accept {Mnesimache} before that name is read]